Instagram and Facebook: The next tech bubble?
Facebook has bought the photo-sharing service for $1-billion. What does history tell us about the wisdom of such mega-deals?
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Burma journalists use social media to report on elections
Burma's journalists will take to Twitter and Facebook in their battle to beat press restrictions and deliver breaking news of Sunday's by-elections.
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A picture gets a thousand likes
A new breed of photo sharing communities has made a virtue of offering less, rather than more.
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Job hunting is getting more and more personal
In an effort to vet applicants, some companies are going beyond glancing at a person's Facebook profile and instead asking to log in to poke around.
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Left goes from retreat to retweet
The US anti-capitalist movement is on the rise, unlike the European Left, which is sinking.
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India won't censor social media, says minister
India does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook but demands that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media.
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Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds
People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers.
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Mbeki: Beware the 'false knowledge' kindled by Twitter
Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups' agendas.
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Government 2.0
Some politicians have taken to using social media as a tool to measure social unrest, while others are using it to engage citizens and cut costs.
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Businesses missing the mark with social media
Business is wasting time and money by trying to reach people on social networks sites without a targeted strategy, a global research survey has found.
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